Example sentences of "it gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of Pater 's subjects for a perceptive essay was Leonardo da Vinci ; it gave special prominence to the painting now generally known as the Mona Lisa . |
| 2 | It gave me a temporary Equity card — mind you they took it away again as soon as I had done the four weeks work . |
| 3 | It gave her a rather unique 360-degree view of the place . |
| 4 | The tea tasted horrible but at least it gave me the chance to have a little think . |
| 5 | It gave . |
| 6 | Ressentiment is a more precise word ; he may well have been blaming God in these developing years for the loss he felt — for the anguish it gave not only to himself but also that witnessed by him in his mother and sister . |
| 7 | It gave rise not only to a new religious movement of tremendous vitality , but also to tales of miracles and wonders . |
| 8 | Anyway , since the English language , not unlike its speakers , and the climate in which it was reared , did not necessarily adhere to the principles of predictability , even had the thought of the good Earl occurred to me , I may st ill not have surmised that it gave proof positive one way or the other re the acceptable pronunciation of the Square 's Christian name . |
| 9 | Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought . |
| 10 | Kevin Inkster discarded the loose chain when he was dissatisfied with the cut it gave , but it made him realise that he was certainly on the right lines . |
| 11 | Even so , it was the first successful attempt in this genre because it gave its performers an opportunity to reveal their talents as actor-dancers . |
| 12 | The East End once boasted the biggest brewery in the world , and it gave birth to some of the most famous names in British brewing history . |
| 13 | It gave 4W output at a ‘ low ’ distortion . |
| 14 | It gave 4W at a lowish distortion and worked in ‘ nearly Class A ’ . |
| 15 | In effect it gave the UK all the frequencies needed for a nationwide Carfax service on a dedicated lattice . |
| 16 | However , Mr Howell said ‘ it gave no indication of the number of transactions arranged , the income and expenditure they had produced , the type of risks involved , the scale of any potential gains and the exposure to loss ’ . |
| 17 | Like so much of the show , it gave a touching twist to the common run of things ; it was as if he could n't bear to see us go . |
| 18 | Broad money was dropped as a target because it gave completely misleading signals during the 1979-81 recession . |
| 19 | It gave effect to the policy of the law that the parties to a judicial decision should not afterwards be allowed to re-litigate the same question , even though the decision might be wrong . |
| 20 | It gave the 33,000 manual workforce 8.9 per cent , which at the time was considerably higher than the ‘ going rate ’ . |
| 21 | For over three decades , Moscow has stuck to the explanation it gave in 1957 to the then Swedish Prime Minister , Tage Erlander : that 10 years before , in July 1947 , Raul Wallenberg had died in Lubyanka prison . |
| 22 | His Lordship accepted Mr Bayliss 's submission that Order 5 , rule 5 did not give power to make an order for contribution in favour of a representative defendant against a member of the class which he was named as representing ; and that the only power it gave was that of giving leave to a person , in whose favour a judgment or order had been given or made , to enforce the judgment or order against a person not a party to the proceedings who was bound by the judgment or order . |
| 23 | It gave them something more than local interest to build on . |
| 24 | ‘ It gave everyone a good introduction as to what we can expect — the weather was hot and the pitch typically flat . ’ |
| 25 | It gave no figures for its own losses . |
| 26 | His college must have hesitated before it gave him permission . |
| 27 | It gave way beneath her , she fell and then rolled helplessly down the aisle . |
| 28 | We were getting more mileage out of an asset we already owned and it gave the business a wider base to cope with fluctuations in any part of it . |
| 29 | The job involved visiting mining camps , quarries and oilfields all over the world selling explosives and it gave Haslam his first taste of the excitement of travel , something that has remained with him all his life . |
| 30 | It gave the best possible example that could be found for a rhetorical approach to the question of property . |